Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship

Are you motivated to empower the next generation of responsible business founders, innovators and leaders? Can you lead a high-performing team, shape the strategic direction of one of Europe’s top university-based entrepreneurship centers, and build partnerships that drive innovation and societal impact locally and internationally?

The Opportunity

Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is looking for a new Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to lead the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE), an internationally renowned center dedicated to empowering future entrepreneurs and innovators. Currently supporting more than 350 student founders across some 250 active startups, CSE's entrepreneurial programs are recognized among Europe's best, having recently won awards for innovation, diversity, and sustainability. CBS ranks among Europe's top five universities based on venture capital funding to our alumni according to Pitchbook.

CSE’s rapid growth, driven by increased external funding and cross-university partnerships, has expanded the international team to 30 professionals representing eight nationalities. Structured as a professionally managed university unit, CSE combines innovative approaches with solid administrative frameworks.

As the Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CSE, you will lead and manage a highly successful and strategically important unit at CBS. Reporting directly to the Dean of Research, your core responsibility will be the effective management and strategic delivery of entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives.

You will oversee teams dedicated to designing and executing entrepreneurship education and incubation activities. You will foster local and international partnerships, advancing CBS’s ambition to create responsible entrepreneurial solutions to society’s greatest challenges. This position also offers the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to European strategic priorities in innovation and economic competitiveness.

The Ideal Candidate

You are an experienced leader with strong people management skills. You have a solid understanding of entrepreneurship or innovation programs, and you might have direct entrepreneurial experience. You understand the distinct leadership role required in a university or other complex organization. You thrive in dynamic environments that require balancing innovation, strategic planning, operational and administrative excellence, and inclusive leadership.

Employment, Application and Further Information

Please read further about the position and the requested capabilities in the Job and Person Profile.

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply by clicking the “Apply online” link which allows you to fill out the application form and attach your application, CV and any appendices. Applications are welcome in both English and Danish/Scandinavian.

Application deadline: 28 May 2025.

If you would like to know more about the recruitment process or the position, please contact Professor Søren Hvidkjær, Dean of Research, at sh.dir@cbs.dk. All inquiries will be treated confidentially.

For more information about recent projects and CSE’s impact, please visit our online publication: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/ce5426ba2a.html#page/1

Application due: 5/28/2025

WE TRANSFORM SOCIETY WITH BUSINESS

CBS is a globally recognised business school with deep roots in the Nordic socio-economic model. Our faculty has a broad focus on societal challenges, and we have earned a reputation for high-quality disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and education.

We are located at Frederiksberg and have approximately 20,000 full and part-time students, 800 full-time faculty members, 200 PhD students and 700 administrative staff, and a full portfolio of bachelor, master, MBA/EMBA, PhD and executive programmes taught in English and Danish.

Our global profile carries the obligation to address critical challenges in our research and to develop the transformational capabilities of students, graduates and business leaders via our educational activities and opportunities for lifelong learning. Complex challenges call for joint action, and therefore our strategy focuses on strengthening current and starting new partnerships with other sciences, the business community, authorities and civil society.

CBS is working continuously on becoming a diverse and inclusive organisation, and we encourage all regardless of gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religious beliefs, LGBT identity, cultural background etc. to apply. Reach out to us if you need assistance in the application or recruitment process, if there is something we should know, or if as a person with disability you wish to make use of your preferential access.